The Media Research Center continued to push a pro-Trump narrative on President Trump’s war on Iran:
- Bozell: Media’s Frenzied Reaction to the Iran Conflict
- MS NOW’s 11th Hour Panel: At Least Iran Has an Ideology, Unlike Trump
- Elitist Media: Trump, U.S. Military in Iran Are Worse Than Nazis
- LOL: New York Times Hypes TINY Truth Social Accounts to Warn of MAGA Exodus
- MS NOW: Melania Statement Distracts from Epstein Distraction of Iran War
- Nicolle Wallace Imagines Iran Doomsday: ‘Even Worse Than We Think’
The MRC’s main task this time around was to divorce itself from fellow right-wingers who don’t support Trump’s war. Mark Finkelstein groused in an April 9 post:
On Thursday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough eagerly enlisted conservative voices—from Fox to Megyn Kelly to even Tucker Carlson—to do his anti-Trump dirty work.
File it under: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The segment began with Mika Brzezinski playing a clip of Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones arguing Trump has yet to achieve his stated objectives in Iran.
“We have not reached any of those objectives,” Jones asserted, noting that Iran continues enriching uranium, refusing intrusive inspections, and advancing its missile program.
Scarborough seized on the clip, portraying it as representative of broader concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Brzezinski then introduced a lengthy clip of Megyn Kelly delivering a bleep-filled tirade against Trump’s social media posts on Iran.
Amid widespread criticism of Trump’s use of an f-bomb in his Truth Social post on Iran, Kelly—ironically—delivered a profanity-laced rant of her own.
Scarborough then underscored just how eager he was to amplify the criticism, approvingly citing not only Kelly but Tucker Carlson as voices Trump supposedly “listens to.”
Yes—Tucker Carlson. A figure long treated by liberal media as beyond the pale suddenly became a credible authority the moment he criticized Trump, just like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson…came out and just said, Mr. President…you don’t say this,” Scarborough said, lamenting that Republican leaders hadn’t followed suit.
Rather than respond to anything these MRC darlings (especially Carlson) had to say, Finkelstein huffed: “In other words, a few selectively curated clips—from figures the liberal media typically derides—were suddenly repurposed as proof of a broader political collapse. For Scarborough, conservative voices are credible—so long as they’re criticizing Trump.”
You mean like the MRC seizes on liberal critics to attack liberals?
Nicholas Fondacaro grumbled the same day about another anti-war right-winger:
Imagine having the gall to invite someone who thinks a cabal of people were starting wild fires with space lasers onto a major cable news outlet to call someone else crazy. Well, that’s exactly what CNN’s The Situation Room did on Thursday when they invited former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on the show to attack President Trump and call for his cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. She also claimed Trump was close to launching nukes against Iran.
Co-host Wolf Blitzer made it clear at the top of the interview that they brought Greene on for one reason, to suggest Trump was insane and he needed to be removed: “Congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us. I know you recently called for the president to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution after that threat that he made about destroying the whole civilization of Iran.”
Fondacaro didn’t mention that it was just a few years ago that his employer was effusively praising Greene’s right-wing extremism while giving her conspiracy theories a pass.
Rather than explain why he flip-flopped on Greene’s extremsim, Fondacaro whined: “Greene would later go on to commend other kooky people like Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones for saying similarly negative things about Trump. And that’s the crux of why CNN had her on.”